Students are always going about the business of building the future, drawing plans for a tomorrow they realize a little more with every passing day. Over the past two decades, Habitat’s Collegiate Challenge program has offered more than 165,000 students the life-changing chance to start actively shaping that future today.

As part of Collegiate Challenge’s recent 20th anniversary celebration, Nova Scotia Community College student Angela Hanlon (left ) works alongside future homeowner Enjonie Ingram in Homestead, Fla.’s Jordan Commons neighborhood.

It’s a familiar scene in Jordan Commons, one of the largest Habitat communities in the United States. The neighborhood features 187 brightly colored Habitat houses — houses built by eager Collegiate Challenge participants over the past 17 years, each home a moment where a Habitat volunteer’s and a Habitat homeowner family’s present and future have come together.